Deer and Cigarette Smoke
 

Can deer smell cigarettes or cigarette smoke?

RE: Deer and Cigarette Smoke
 

No doubt they can. They can smell anything and everything.

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Sure they can. I am a smoker and go to great lengths to conceal that fact from the deer)). I do not smoke in the house, wife would kill me!!! I do not smoke after I shower for a hunt. My hunting clothes are always washed and kept in sealed bags.

Deer can smell human body odor so why would you think they can not smell cigarette smoke? It gets on your clothes and smells bad. IMHO cigarette smoke is a foreign odor to them. I can not remember the last time I saw a buck walk by with a Marlboro sticking out of his mouth)))) LoL

Dave

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I am sure they can smell it.
I wouldalmost guaranteeit would have a negative impact on your hunting success although I can't tell you howmany success stories I have heard over the years that start with..."so there I was, sitting inmy stand...steaming thermos of coffee between my legs and a cigarette in my mouth when all of a sudden there he was....";)

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I've heard many of those stories in my lifetime also, but I'd be willing to bet that they actually need to add another word there - "when all of a sudden there he was, UPWIND".:D

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Maybe they can, but if Im not dipping my cig smoke mixes in with the airplane fuel Im so high up in a tree!

I have smoked in a tree before and shot a deer 10 yrds away. One trait a deer has is curiosity. If its not human it wont spook them, just like many things to a deer, they are more curious than anything..IMHO.

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My dad smokes in his tree stand everytime he hunts. He does get way up in the trees though. Last night he said he was close to 50 feet up.

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50 feet? At that height why bother with the bow? Just drop the arrow, I am sure gravity will do the rest))))

Dave

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IMHO Cigarette smoke will clear a field of deer faster than Philip Fulmer can clear a football stadium. I know, because I have experienced it. I was on a paid hunt in TX and had already killed my animal, was just sitting to hopefully get a hog. There were a half dozen deer at the feeder, and I lit a cigarette to see what would happen. As soon as the deer got a whiff, they bolted, blew, and ran to the next county, I didn't see any other animals that day. So, don't smoke unless you are 100% certain that you are upwind and there won't be any swirling wind. I have noticed that in the a.m. hunts, when I am high in a tree (20ft or better), that the air currents usually rise, so you might get away with a smoke, but, you had better have a way to hide the butt and ashes.

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Yea they smell it. But, if its ok wind, it just eliminates a direction i have to look. I try to limit it though.

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QUIT. Make a list of the positive things smokin does for ya. Short list, huh?

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I dont really need to worry about it because no way in hell am I going to smoke at all. My dad is a smoker and he wants to see me get a deer. I have been begging him and begging him to try and quit but its just not possible. I just dont want him to scare deer away.
Before we go out I will have to snatch them from his bag and throw them away. :)

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I was sitting in a ground blind this past weekend with deer around me(6 feet to 25 yards) and I was having a smoke just enjoying the sites and sounds of a spring fed creek...deer were nervous but coulda been the smell of blood from the buck we arrowed a few hours ealier in the same spot.The sound of me squeezing a water bottle bothered them more.I think it depends on where and the pressure deer have been under.

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People always tell me that deer lobe tobacco. I know a guy that smokes on stand and consistently shoots 140's. One guy said he had a deer (a little doe or nubby) come from downwind when he was smoking a stogie (he's a meat hunter though). I know lots of dippers that say deer don't care.

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ive been huntin with my aunt for the past couple years because she only had buck tags and i would shoot bow so i could take some does. and when ever we wouldnt see something i would tell her to light up and every time the deer came- good ol rally smoke

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I personally switch over to dip in the stand... which I doubt is much better because im spitting out of my stand onto the ground, but my deer did come in just fine... So I guess he was jonesing for some copenhagen... I think that they can smell it, and I would not recomend it. But in my short time I have also heard a fe dirty tricks, one of them being, "Do not be afraid to leave your scent around before the season" which I took to mean, If deer become acclamated to human odor in the woods and are condictioned to not feel that the hunter is a threat, they will not freak out about humon odor and its part of their every day life.... But, once you kill one... they are going to assocate it with death.

I would say if you are going to smoke on the stand, make sure to get a smoke tower and some tinks smokin sticks, that way its not just tobacco smoke.

also... remember what Smoky used to say... "only you can start forest fires." oh wait..." prevent".... Just be careful of your hot ash and dry leaves.

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Deer do get use to certain things as part of the teritory and accept it.My brother drives his truck with a Cummins rattling through the pasture and deer walk out thinking he's feeding cows...no problem...you drive a gas burner through and the race is on!:D

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my buddies step dad just killed a 150 somethin incher....


.......hes a chain smoker...said he just put one out within minutes of the buck coming in!



my guess is different deer associate different scents with danger....and i guess some dont take smoke smell as being danger. though i would think they would take it as being foreign and would be alarmed to it....id be willing to bet that smokers get busted alot and dont even realize it....ontop of the scent, they also move while smoking...i learned yesterday that just because you cant see them doesnt mean they cant see you [:@]

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when i smoked i killed a deer every year.I stoped smoking 10 years ago and only killed 3 in the 10 years.So maybe it pays to smoke.been hunting 34 years

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5 stories. What was he in a redwood?